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Title: Plague; its cause and the manner of its extension, its menace, its control and suppression, its diagnosis and treatment
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Wright, 1869- Schöbl, Otto
Subjects: Plague Rats as carriers of disease
Publisher: (Philadelphia) J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ified and dry and there-fore dead for at least one week, was found clingingto a bamboo wall just back of the cot upon which thedead human body was found. In a section of bamboo, in a timber constitutingthe ceiling of the basement and also the upper partof the door frame, a rat, dead and dried up, wasfound. This section was the end section of thetimber which was partly covered with nipa thatch,with which the sides of the house were covered. Theends of a number of the outside rafters (bamboo)were found to be gnawed through. Similar conditions were found in adjoininghouses and in one case a live rat was driven out ofa nest in the bamboo. Sample of Detailed Orders Issued.—Sampleof detailed orders issued by Medical Inspector inCharge of Plague Suppression. Similar orderswere issued whenever new districts were entered ornew work undertaken. Memorandum Order. Effective March 25, 1913:Beginning to-day, IS men under Assistant InspectorPar&s, will commence cleaning operations at C. Ostra,
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BAMBOO HOUSE SUPPORTS SEALED WITH CEMENT TO PREVENT ENTRANCE OF RATS(MANILA PLAGUE CAMPAIGN) ITS CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION 119 extending from the Bay to C. Sande and will clean towardsC. Moriones. They will be provided with a disinfectingpump and will disinfect the ground surfaces whereverdisturbed, outdoors and indoors. Cleaning is to be donein the most thorough manner possible, searching mean-while for rat nests and rat harbors; re-piling wood, tiles,stones and merchandise; moving all movable goods out ofdoors in their search for rats and rat-holes or nests. Allgoods are to be piled above ground at an elevation of atleast one foot. All bamboo beds and bamboo rafters andparts of the house (in the basements) made of bamboo orof double walls are to be thoroughly investigated for rats.All foodstuff attractive for rats is to be placed in coveredboxes or galvanized iron cans, tin cans or barrels, withtight-fitting covers. Special attention is to be paid tostraw, hay, shavings, grain, rat-ho

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